That's not completely true - the Salem nuclear plant in New Jersey had to shut down one of its units in 2019 when suspended ice reduced the intake flow for the open loop of the reactor's water cooling system. Extreme cold weather conditions like the ones in Texas may or may not be sufficient to cause the same problem there.
Texas's weather conditions were not extreme in the slightest. They were "just winter" in many other places. Even other places that use wind and solar power on heavy government grants. They were built skimping on a lot of cold weather safeguards that would be 100% mandatory anywhere more north in order to cut costs to make the cost per megawatt-hour approach the concept of "reasonable" compared to alternative energy sources.
Alaska has power. Can you imagine it? A place where Texas' winter is like their summers. But they don't go dark for 6 months of the year because of iced mills and chilled pipes.
That's not completely true - the Salem nuclear plant in New Jersey had to shut down one of its units in 2019 when suspended ice reduced the intake flow for the open loop of the reactor's water cooling system. Extreme cold weather conditions like the ones in Texas may or may not be sufficient to cause the same problem there.
Texas's weather conditions were not extreme in the slightest. They were "just winter" in many other places. Even other places that use wind and solar power on heavy government grants. They were built skimping on a lot of cold weather safeguards that would be 100% mandatory anywhere more north in order to cut costs to make the cost per megawatt-hour approach the concept of "reasonable" compared to alternative energy sources.
Alaska has power. Can you imagine it? A place where Texas' winter is like their summers. But they don't go dark for 6 months of the year because of iced mills and chilled pipes.
Alaska has entire wind farms that operate through out winter. One of those windfarms is actually on an a small island surrounded by ocean water.